February 12, 2011, 11:57PM

MOBILE, Alabama -- Love was in the air Saturday evening, and most of the Saenger Theatre audience showed up primed for romance. It was a night for mad love, puppy love -- even dangerous love. Who can hear the tell-tale notes from Bizet’s “Carmen” without conjuring the image of the unfortunate Don José and opera’s most notorious femme fatale? The... Full story »

October 22, 2010, 11:37PM

ï»¿ How fitting that in the town Eugene Walter once characterized as “Sweet Lunacy’s County Seat,” Mobile Opera opened its 65th season with an operetta that is quite cheerfully out of its mind. Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” is as naughty (almost) and nutty as a week of Fat Tuesdays, and it is equally appropriate that Mardi Gras was mentioned more... Full story »

September 19, 2010, 10:23AM

Mobile Opera is a company in transition, and no one is more enthusiastic about the changes than general director D. Scott Wright. The 59-year-old Wright is a familiar face (and voice) throughout the Mobile-Baldwin area, having balanced a 30-year career as a lawyer with innumerable appearances on stages and in concert halls along the Gulf Coast. A partner in... Full story »

May 16, 2010, 5:00AM

With the retirement of executive director Earl Jackson looming, Mobile Opera has ensured an orderly transition by naming D. Scott Wright general director to oversee operations, production and public relations for the 64-year-old company. Wright joins the company as it prepares to launch its 65th season with a semi-staged concert of the Leonard Bernstein’s operetta “Candide” and a one-night-only... Full story »

March 19, 2010, 6:51PM

Mobile Opera will continue its cost-conscious ways in 2010-11 with two concerts and one fully mounted production of a Puccini favorite. The company (http://www.mobileopera.org/) will celebrate its 65th anniversary with a semi-staged concert of Leonard Bernstein’s operetta “Candide” and a one-night-only concert version of the Tony Award-winning musical “The Light in the Piazza.” Both events will take place at... Full story »